Fire Up the Competition

In due course, roadtrains will afford inexpensive public transit and very comfortable private vehicles affording refreshing trips. They will also come to use a wide variety of fuel sources at rail train like levels of safety.

The first step is to show that cars can operate be physically connected - while moving - with emergency handling that provides an acceptable level of safety. Introduction to the market is five to ten years away and will eventually demand that other drivers use on-board speed advisories (based on vehicle to vehicle and traffic signals).

For more information on the genesis of American roadtrains (as opposed to the original use of the word in Australia to refer to trucks with at least two trailers), see discussIT.org.